Re^2: Perl Upgrade

Perhaps in the general case, but Abigail's answer in this thread seems to indicate that 5.8.3 and 5.8.0 are not binary compatible (unless they rolled back the change they made in 5.8.1)

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Re^3: Perl Upgrade by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2005 at 14:10 UTC
perl582delta Incompatible Changes For threaded builds for modules calling certain re-entrant system calls, binary compatibility was accidentally lost between 5.8.0 and 5.8.1. Binary compatibility with 5.8.0 has been restored in 5.8.2, which necessitates breaking compatibility with 5.8.1. We see this as the lesser of two evils. This will only affect people who have a threaded perl 5.8.1, and compiled modules which use these calls, and now attempt to run the compiled modules with 5.8.2. The fix is to re-compile and re-install the modules using 5.8.2.	[reply]

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Re^3: Perl Upgrade
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2005 at 14:10 UTC

Incompatible Changes
    For threaded builds for modules calling certain re-entrant system calls,
    binary compatibility was accidentally lost between 5.8.0 and 5.8.1.
    Binary compatibility with 5.8.0 has been restored in 5.8.2, which
    necessitates breaking compatibility with 5.8.1. We see this as the
    lesser of two evils.

    This will only affect people who have a threaded perl 5.8.1, and
    compiled modules which use these calls, and now attempt to run the
    compiled modules with 5.8.2. The fix is to re-compile and re-install the
    modules using 5.8.2.

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